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Nearly half of all Internet traffic in 2022 came from bots WWW.TECHSPOT.COM In its latest annual report, the firm found that a staggering 47.4 percent of all Internet traffic in 2022 came from... Yikes.

Could not find a text good article on this, hence the video.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/3d-x-dram-technology-to-significantly-boost-memory-chip-capacity-rapidly.html What will Nvidia's excuse be after this launches

It will be interesting to see how google deals with AI. They can't just ignore ChatGPT and BingChat, but anything that makes using the internet more efficient is going to cost google money. One of the best things about using BingChat for searches, no ads.

People absolutely should be using OneDrive and office 365. No one would use a smart phone without back ups enabled these days, and OneDrive is that but for windows. When I have a customer who loses data because their hard drive failed and they never signed into OneDrive, I have no sympathy for them. Office is free now via a browser. No one should be paying for office anymore, and using office plus OneDrive is a really good way to get things done. It's sad that Microsoft has to beat people over the head with this stuff to get them to even realize it exists. I don't see how this is anything new either, Microsoft has had Office trials in the start menu for years. This feels very much like a click bait headline.

Thats true, but even after pulling back on that announcement the Xbox One was significantly bottlenecked by much lower memory bandwidth compared to the PS4 which is why pretty much every cross-platform game runs at a lower res on Xbox One. Sony also really delivered on first party games during that era, a trend they had gotten pretty good at with the PS3 era. Microsoft was never good at keeping up with first party titles, and they got to ride the Halo wave for way longer than they really should have been able to. Sony was smart to take game development so seriously for so long and build such a strong brand of quality around it. I think Microsoft only recently started to really understand that. Sony was playing Chess while Microsoft was playing Checkers. At any time, Microsoft could have focused more on quality software, but for whatever reason they just didn't take that seriously until now. Had the PS4 and Xbox one been identical in both specs and price, Sony still would have dominated because it would have been Halo and Gears of War vs a much larger library of high quality games from Sony.

Microsoft Exec Says Xbox Lost Console War to Sony, Nintendo WWW.MSN.COM The Xbox Series X/S have around half the sales of Sony's PS5 and less than one-fifth of Nintendo's Switch. Important to note, Microsoft is not trying to sell more consoles than Sony, and Sony has also realized selling hardware is not the best way to make money. It's all about selling games, or subscriptions. That's why Sony puts their games on PC now, they don't make money from selling PS5 consoles, they make money from selling games. It would be interesting to know which company is actually pulling in more revenue from their respective gaming divisions. As I see it, Sony is the brand most people would think of when they think of the highest quality modern games, especially single player games. Xbox is in a good position with game pass though. It's been a lot of messy launches and failures for Xbox game pass so far, with RedFall being the latest example, but I think eventually they will get things in order and have a lot more to offer in terms of quality when we start seeing some first party titles like HellBlade and maybe Starfield. If they ever do get COD on game pass, that will be pretty huge as well but even if they don't, there will still be a time where they will eventually have enough quality games on game pass for most people to justify the $10 or $15 a month subscription fee. Essentially, the way I see it can be summed up like this; Sony is operation on all cylinders and pumping out great games, but there isn't much they can do to build on that formula right now except keep delivering good content. Microsoft on the other hand is still struggling to get started, still yet to release a single "next gen" Xbox series X hardware level game. They have a great foundation in place but are still building out the content to back it up. If/when they do release some good content, I think they will get a ton of new subscriptions. Side rant:

Amazon.com: Formulamod Self Adhesive Cable Comb Kit, Sleeve Management Tools Wire Organizer Comb Computer Case Cable Clips, Multipurpose Wire Clamps (Black) : Electronics These ones have clips. If you scroll down on the page and look at the "similar products" there are actually a lot of these on amazon.

It looks like there are lots of extension cables that come with these combs. It might be easier to pay a bit more and buy the extension cables and just use those, or use thr combs that come with them.

upHere 24 Pieces Set = 24-pin x 4, 8-pin x 12, 6-pin x 8 for 3 mm up to 3.4 mm/0.13inch- Black(3.4 mm/0.13inch)-CM245 https://a.co/d/aSDfOHz

AMD Plans to Transition from AGESA to Open Source OpenSIL Firmware by 2026 for Enhanced Security & Simplicity https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-plans-to-transition-from-agesa-to-open-source-opensil-firmware-by-2026-for-enhanced-security-simplicity.html I had no idea there were open source options for this kind of thing.

AMD jumps on report Microsoft is collaborating on A.I. chip push WWW.MSN.COM Unlike top U.S. cloud competitors Amazon and Google, Microsoft hasn't launched a chip that developers can use to train artificial-intelligence models. It would make sense; Microsoft wants even competition in the hardware space. Lifting up AMD to better compete with Nvidia will be good for overall prices for AI hardware.

When looking at other sites the main goal would be to have better international shipping options than printify, and then hopefully also have some better product options for things like lanyards. CustomInk does lanyards but not international shipping. Have not yet found one that is good for both, but if you know of any please let me know.

Neither Printify nor RedBubble have lanyards which means these logos are really only good for stickers ATM, unless there was anything else you guys had in mind for them? Do you guys want a shirt with a vertical logo?

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-introduces-revolutionary-neural-texture-compression-for-material-textures.html I guess we can expect to see more and more GPUs from Nvidia with skimpped Vram.

Any logos should have clear backgrounds or seperate background files, otherwise they are much harder to fit and use with an actual product.

Those are nice, but it's unlikely they will fit perfectly with a product. It's best to do the logo without a background so areas don't ens up being cut off. If you have a background you like, include it as a seperate image file and make it larger.

TSMC may charge 30 percent more for chips made at its Arizona fabs WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Back in December, TSMC announced it would pour no less than $40 billion into building two advanced chip factories in... Maybe they will overclock better?

IBM will stop hiring for jobs that could be performed by an AI WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Speaking to Bloomberg, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said that hiring in non-customer-facing roles, such as human resources... Surely not just IBM.

It goes both ways. There are games ported from PC to console that don't get the full optimization in the port version as well.

I agree with all that. I'm definitely not a fan of what Nvidia is doing at all, that's why I bought a 7900xt instead of a 4070ti, but when it comes to dlss3 and path tracing i think this 2077 tech preview is proving that they can do more with less under the right conditions. I guess my overall point is just that, although there is no argument that Nvidia is skimping on Vram, there could be an argument for why that's not as big of a deal today with dlss2/3 to pick up the slack.

If you go with ryzen 5000, IMO the 5700x is the best bang for buck cpu. Runs cooler than a 5800x but is about 99% the same in performance. Having enough threads to match PS5 level hardware is really all you should need, and the 3700x is pretty much right on target in that sense.

I think it's usually a lot more of a difference, but I can't seem to find any of the charts that I'm pretty sure I've seen over the last year or two. I guess I could test it myself with FSR2 and see what happens.

DLSS scales the same way render resolution does when it comes to Vram, and there is a very strong relationship between resolution and Vram usage. Rendering at 1080P or 1440P and upscaling to 4K uses a lot less Vram than rendering in 4K does. DLSS does not change texture resolution or anything other than the render resolution. It's definitely the case that DLSS, when used, greatly reduces the Vram usage. There are plenty of benchmarks to back this up online. I don't think the 2077 screenshot a post above is showing Vram usage during a benchmark run, and it's also not a comparison of different resolutions/DLSS quality settings, it's a comparison of different RT settings. Edit: it is pretty hard to find data on this specifically actually. I know I have seen several charts on it, but hard to find any of them now. I did find this one: Perhaps, based on this one chart, it does not scale as much as just lowering the resolution usually does but it still makes quite a big difference.